How GOP, Democrats Split on Gun Vote

WASHINGTON—When the Senate moved Thursday to start bringing gun-control legislation to the floor, both Republicans and Democrats broke party ranks on the 68-31 vote.

Sixteen GOP lawmakers joined Democrats to vote for moving forward with the gun legislation, defeating a tea party-led effort to block the Senate from considering gun legislation. Both Republican senators from Arizona, where former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot two years ago, voted to bring the bill to the floor. (Click here for the full list of how senators voted.)

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